Spitalfields Music 2008 Annual Report.

Annual Report 2008/09
Evolving through exchange and inspiration

Contents
Review of the year 3 – 5
About us 5 – 6
Strategic objectives 7
Our programme 8 – 11
Audiences and participants 12
Funding 13
Our supporters 14 – 16
Financial statements 17
People 18
Title Page
Total number of people involved in our work 23,357
Total performance events 127
Walks, talks and visits 18
Total outdoor events 20
Total free festival events 31
Total premieres 15
Radio broadcasts 10
The year in numbers

Review of the year
2008/09 has been a full and fulfilling year for
Spitalfields Music – our first year with our new
name. Our programme of activity has continued
to go from strength to strength and new plans
which were forming at the time of writing last
year’s report are now starting to come to fruition.
2008/09 programme
2008/09 has been the final year under Artistic
Director Diana Burrell and her two festival
programmes have showcased the quality of her
programming. For our Winter Festival 2008 (spilling
into 2009) her invitation to the Monteverdi Choir
and English Baroque Soloists with Sir John Eliot
Gardiner captured imaginations and drew in the
largest audience ever for our Winter Festival. In
the Summer Festival 2009 her inclusion of three
substantial new pieces of commissioned music,
by Michael Finnissy, Jonathan Dove and herself,
marked the highest level of attendance for new
music in any of our festivals and the pieces drew
significant critical acclaim. I would like to thank
Diana for her inspiring and thoughtful leadership of
our festival programming over the past three years.
Our year-round Learning & Participation
Programme continues to thrive with this year’s
focus on working with fewer people in a more
sustained and in depth way. In particular,
our Special Education Needs programme
developed with partnership from Sing Up!; the
playingfields programme concluded after three
years; our choir Women sing East hit its highest
level of membership and made its evening
concert debut in Wilton’s during our Summer
Festival and our Apprentice Artist Scheme
expanded its reach significantly.
In September we ran a first ‘mini festival’,
working with local partners to celebrate the
beginning of the Cultural Olympiad with a
weekend-long programme called Spitalfields
Opens Up!
Looking ahead
2009/10 sees a number of new initiatives starting,
which seek both to involve people even more closely
in our programme and organisation, and find even
more points of intersection between our Learning
& Participation programme and festivals:
With a grant from the Esmée• Fairbairn
Foundation we begin Stomping Ground, a
three year initiative to develop our whole
programme to get even more people involved
across the borough as volunteers, curators,
audience and participants for our work.
We commission a new participatory piece•
for 250 voices for next summer’s festival
– a piece which will celebrate different
communities and involve young and old
people, city workers and local residents.
We begin a new primary programme with•
neighbourhood primary schools within a 15
minute walk of Spitalfields market.
We develop our volunteering programme to•
involve more people in our festivals and to
build volunteering through the year.
We move from working with a single Artistic•
Director to a series of Artistic Associates
offering the chance for artists to work with
us over a period of time and to be involved
in our festivals and year-round programme.
Business plan
We enter 2009/10 in a strong artistic, educational
and organisational position. The financial
position is more challenging, with unprecedented
economic conditions having contributed to both
a shortfall in our fundraising and depletion in
the value of our reserves in the past 12 months.
Whilst the immediate impact of this is felt in the
figures reported here, (to the end of 2008), we
have set a course to a ‘break-even’ annual budget
for 2009 and taken steps to ensure our balance
sheet position has every chance of recovery.
Whilst the finances from our July 2008 business
plan have been revised in the light of the last
12 months, the overarching objectives and
individual project goals remain our focus and
despite significantly reduced resources we have
achieved 65% of our goals for the year across our
programme, resources, marketing and fundraising.

Partners and collaborators
Our work is delivered in partnership with
others, locally and nationally, and it is due to
strong and creative partnerships that we have
been able to continue to deliver so much in a
challenging financial period. Our key venues:
Christ Church, Wilton’s Music Hall, Shoreditch
Church, Brady Centre and Bishopsgate Institute
have all supported us by allowing us to use
their spaces without charge. We are extremely
grateful to them for this support. Spitalfields
Estates working with us on Arts Box and on our
outdoor festival programme continue to work
tirelessly to get the best from our partnership.
Our project with The Monteverdi Choir and The
English Baroque Soloists proved what can be
achieved through artistic collaboration: bringing
the highest quality music making to the borough
and offering ways for as many people as possible
to get involved. And our schools, our City of
London Arts Partners, our Create partners and
the THAMES team continue to be important
partnerships for us.
Thank you
It is thanks to our many loyal and generous
supporters, that we are able to deliver our
programme. In particular we would like to
thank the Arts Council England, City of London
Corporation and London Borough of Tower
Hamlets for their support of our work, both
financial and with expertise and networks.
We are very grateful to our founding group of
Champions, who established a new individual
supporters group during our Winter Festival 2008
and to all of our individual supporters who have
continued their support for us through the year.
There have been some changes to our Council
during the year. Thank you to Sarah Kemp for
many years of energetic and creative contribution
as she steps down from the Council. Also to Wilf
Weeks OBE who stepped down as Chair during
the year, following a period of ill health. His
tenure at the helm was brief but the impact of his
efforts significant – laying the ground for many
of the developments which are now coming to
fruition. Andrew Blankfield stepped in, initially as
Acting Chair, and then taking over in November,
steering the organisation on a steady course
through a challenging 12 months. I’d like to
thank him for his huge energy and effort. Going
in to 2009/10 we welcome Sir Alan Moses as our
next Chair, a role he begins in October.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to
our activities in 2008/09: none of this would
have been possible without the staff, Council,
volunteers, advisers, funders and partners
whose vigour and enthusiasm are the core of our
success. I look forward to the coming year and to
the next phase.
Abigail Pogson
Executive Director
Review of the year

Our impact is measured by those involved in our work. Here are some of their comments:
About us
Herbert Smith has been proudly supporting
community organisations in the local area
for close to 20 years, and we are delighted
to have been able to extend that support
to promoting live music performance. We
would like to congratulate Spitalfields Music
on their hugely successful programme this
year and wish them all the best for 2010.
Ian Cox, Partner,
Head of Real Estate, Herbert Smith LLP
I really enjoyed the hands on experience of
the whole programme. I was really proud to
be involved. The kids were focused and really
willing to perform. It gave each of them a
sense of achievement. A real treat for the
school and parents.
Troy Gering, Teacher, Phoenix School
Excellent performance, wonderful venue, what
more could I ask for? More of the same!
Audience member
The course has increased my general
happiness and well-being, encouraged me
to listen to a wider range of music and I’ve
made new friends.
Women sing East participant
Last night’s concert was great - wonderful
choir and orchestra. The evening at
Spitalfields was lovely as usual. It’s a great
venue, the programme is always excellent
with performances of high standard. Wish I
could come more often.
Audience member
A fun, interactive experience. The project
built on their team working skills, self-
confidence and performance skills, enabling
children to see their own potential and talent.
[The project helped in] building links with
[the] local community and other schools.
The artists were great, inspirational, very
enthusiastic and passionate about music.
Hurca Mohsin, Teacher, Osmani School
This project was really fun and satisfying
to be involved with. I felt that the children
gained a great deal from the project – both
musically and in terms of self-esteem.
Leadership was really inspiring and I learnt
a lot from working with [her] and Jim.
Artist involved in workshop leading
Works commissioned by British music
festivals are often the size of a mouse. Yet
the plucky Spitalfields Summer Festival
managed to gather just enough funds to
generate a major work by that abrasive
maverick Michael Finnissy.
The Times – Geoff Brown
Music is a fantastic medium by which we
can engage a community and improve
people’s confidence, discipline and ability to
communicate. Spitalfields Music continues
to offer the local community all of these
benefits, whilst providing a new and exciting
engagement opportunity.
Paul Edwards,
Head of Sustainability, Hammerson

About us
2008/09 in summary
Vision:
Changing lives and aspirations through music in
London’s East End.
Mission:
Spitalfields Music creates live music experiences
in Spitalfields through performances, learning
and participation. Everything we do is inspired by
the spirit of the area, its people and their global
and local influences. Taking live music as our
core, we explore music, performance, its artists
and our communities.
Aims:
To produce music festivals for locally•
based people and visitors to the area,
programming in a way which takes artistic
risk and offers something new to audiences
and participants.
To make year-round learning and•
participation projects with the people of
Tower Hamlets which encourage aspiration,
skill and fun.
To nurture and find talent, to commission•
new work and to work with artists.
To be a catalyst and collaborator in music•
in Spitalfields and Tower Hamlets and to
engage in the life of the borough.
Messy Songs for Messy Play
Through our Learning & Participation
Programme’s 20 years we have developed a
specialism in bringing music to young people
with learning difficulties, working regularly in
three centres in the borough. One of these is
Cherry Trees School in Bow (where we have been
working for ten years), a small primary school
for boys with severe emotional and behavioural
difficulties. For two weeks the whole school
timetable is turned over to music including
singing, trumpet and percussion and at the end
of the fortnight, a performance showcases the
results to families and the local community.
Our programme has a local, national and
international reputation
500,000 people have been directly involved•
to date. 3 million have heard our work
through BBC Radio broadcasts. We have
brought 46 new pieces of music to life
through our commissioning fund.
Our audiences and participants are both local
residents and visitors to the area and our
Summer and Winter Festivals have brought
consistent economic impact to the area over
32 years:
For every £1 of public subsidy a further•
£4 is raised from private sources
Economic impact, measured by Arts•
Council formulae, is £2.5million per
annum across turnover, goods and
services offered, additional visitor
spending and employment
Our programme is accessible and affordable
and our relationship with participants and
audiences is personal and friendly. We are
responsible for many first introductions
to concert-going, making music or
creating music
65% of people involved in our work are •
based in Tower Hamlets
50% of our tickets are free or £5•
65% of participants are undertaking a •
music workshop for the first time
40% of paying attenders are attending •
for the first time

Our goals for 2009/10 are to:
build our festivals, learning and participation
and events programmes into a new phase with
artistic associates
continue to build our partnerships locally,•
nationally and internationally
continue to develop the Spitalfields Music•
brand and understanding of it locally
and nationally
manage our finances with low risk•
through the continuing economic
challenges and support this with
a focused fundraising programme
support and develop our people: artists,•
volunteers, staff members, advisers
and trustees
explore possibilities for a long-term physical•
base for the organisation’s work
Buy-one, donate-one
This summer we asked for the help of our
audiences to provide an opportunity for a Tower
Hamlets resident to come to an event for the first
time. When buying a ticket, audience members
were asked whether they would donate the
value of a second. So far 72 people have come
for free for the first time, hearing a range of
events from opera, to a steel pan band to string
quartets. We worked together with Bishopsgate
Institute, Linkage, Providence Row/Dellow Lane,
Spitalfields City Farm, The Atlee Centre, Magic
Me, Streetwise Opera and Aspirations at Tower
Hamlets College to reach first time attenders.
‘I enjoyed it tremendously. The steel band was
terrific!’ Vincent Felice, media group member
‘Got all the kids together, all nationalities –
wonderful’ Vi Davis, media group member
All of those who attended the concert found it to
be ‘interesting’ and ‘atmospheric’ and one person
particularly liked ‘how the flautist started playing
before he even came into view of the audience’.
Another liked how the concert took her ‘out of
the ordinariness of my day-to-day life’. From
Spitalfields City Farm attenders.
Strategic objectives

A word from our Artistic
Director, Diana Burrell
It has been my privilege and joy to have had the
post of Artistic Director of the festival for the
last three years and to have worked alongside
the wonderful composers and artists that have
given us such great concerts. It has been a
time of exciting developments and change for
the organisation and East London. Given these
factors and the current economic climate, we
could be forgiven if we had been tempted to play
a little bit safe, sitting still for a while and taking
stock. Not a bit of it! That simply isn’t our style.
Instead, during the last 18 months, we’ve been
exploring all sorts of new directions, new venues,
new ways of working with young people and the
local community and continuing to commission
new works.
One thing hasn’t changed, and that is our
commitment to the best music and performers.
The memory of John Eliot Gardiner and his
musicians performing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
in Christ Church last December/January will
stay with me for the rest of my life, as will
Michael Finnissy’s moving account of the passion
story - The Transgressive Gospel - given by Kate
Westbrook, Richard Jackson and Ixion in the
intimate space of Wilton’s Music Hall during the
Summer Festival. It also meant a great deal to
me that the first performance of my Concerto for
Violin with Singer and 3 Ensembles was able to
happen in our festival, just as it also means a lot
that through our New Music Commission Fund it
was us that brought into being the beautiful new
pieces by Morgan Hayes, Naomi Pinnock and
Matthew Shlomowitz during recent festivals.
Over the last three years there have been many
wonderful concerts - far too many to list here
- and I am confident that all this will continue.
Thank you to every single person involved for
making my task of programming the concerts
so pleasurable and to those who have backed
them with their support and partnership. I
realise that as I leave Spitalfields, I am leaving
an organisation that is in extremely good health,
bold and confident in its approach to the future.
I can’t wait to see the programmes for future
festivals, and I am really looking forward to
coming back to my favourite corner of London,
where I can sit and listen to music in my
favourite venues as a member of the audience.
Diana Burrell
Our programme
New music
Christian Wolf
Catherine Kontz
Michael Parsons
Rhodri Davies
Anton Lukoszevieze
James Weeks
Bryn Harrison
Jennifer Walshe
John Barber
Finn Peters
Jonathan Dove
Michael Finnissy
Diana Burrell
May-kay Yau
Nicholas Sackman
For 1, 2, or 3 People
Tea Ceremony
Constellations
Cresis
H.ARP
Tide
Present Form
This is why people o.d. on
Pills/And jump from the
Golden Gate Bridge
Skies may be blue
New works
Piano Quintet
The Transgressive Gospel
Concerto for Violin Plus
Four Nightmares
Fantasia

Our programme: Festivals
Cultural Olympiad:
Spitalfields Opens Up!
15 & 16 September 2008
Total events: 10
Total attenders: 1561
Together with local partners and in co-ordination
with the national Cultural Olympiad, we ran a
weekend of activities based around Spitalfields
Market aimed at celebrating the spirit of
the Olympics. Spitalfields Music produced a
series of open singing workshops through the
borough, culminating in a performance in the
market on Sunday afternoon.1,500 people were
involved. Other partners included Spitalfields
E1, Bishopsgate Institute, Barbican, Artsadmin,
Kinetika, Idea Store, Whitechapel Gallery and the
Royal London Hospital.
The programme involved the following
artists and groups:
Isabelle Adams, Aspirations, Aurora Orchestra
(Henry Baldwin, Tom Barber, Elena Jauregui,
Francesco Jauregui), John Barber, Jim Cartwright,
City of London Sinfonia (Tim Gunnell,
Alison Hayhurst, Beth Randall), Community Music,
Hannah Conway, Laka D, Suzi Digby,
David Frankel, firefly, Francis Gardner,
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Kath Gilfoy, Sam Glazer,
Paul Griffiths, Igloo Artists (Bruno Martelli and
Ruth Gibson), Gawain Hewitt, Carly Lake,
Pete Letanka, MagicMe Media Group,
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra (Robert Kendell,
Howard Moody, Nicholas Mulroy),
Monteverdi Choir Apprentice Scheme
(Zoe Brown, Christopher Borrett,
Susanna Fairbairn, Chloe Morgan, Robyn Parton,
Simon Ponsford, Lucy Roberts and Emma Walshe),
Matthew Moore, Phil Mullen, Roshi Nasehi,
Richard Newby, Zoe Palmer, Simon Pearson,
Issy Postill, Alison Rayner, James Redwood,
Royal Academy of Music, Jack Ross,
Spitalfields Music Animateur Apprentice Scheme
(Tim Davy, Chris Dowding, Sophia Efthimiou,
Bobbie Gardner, Helen Smith and
Ayanna Witter-Johnson), Daisy Vatalaro,
Julian West, Chris Wilson, Jonathan Williams,
Suzi Zumpe.
The programme involved the following
organisations as partners:
Artsadmin, Aspirations, Barbican, Bishopsgate
Institute, BBC Radio 3, Brady Arts & Community
Centre, Cherry Trees School, Christ Church
Spitalfields, Christ Church Primary School,
Cultural Olympiad (LOCOG), CYM main centre,
EAST, Guildhall School of Music and Drama,
Hague Primary School, Halley Primary School,
Harbinger Primary School, John Scurr Primary
School, Lansbury Lawrence Primary School,
Museum of Childhood, Malmesbury Primary
School, Old Palace Primary School, Olga Primary
School, Osmani Primary School, Phoenix
Secondary School, Rich Mix, Royal Academy
of Music, Shapla Primary School, Shoreditch
Church, Spitalfields City Farm, Spitalfields
Development Group, Spitalfields E1,
St Anne’s Primary School, St Matthias Primary
School, Stebon Primary School, Stewart Headlam
Primary School, Sundial Centre, Streetwise
Opera, THAMES, Vital Arts, Wilton’s Music Hall,
Whitechapel Gallery.

Our programme: Festivals
Winter Festival 5 December
2008 – 9 January 2009
Total events: 36
Media coverage
• Total number of cuttings 50
• Reviews 11
• Listings 28
• Articles/previews 11
A longer and fuller Winter Festival took place
than has been customary. This happened
to accommodate our partnership with The
Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque
Soloists to perform Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
as it was written, in six separate cantatas for
feast days either side of Christmas. Around this
idea a full residency was created, with learning
programmes in local schools, insight and debate
events for audiences, broadcasts and talks.
Alongside this residency the festival included
A Spitalfields Christmas Carol (an alternative
history walk), Contemporary Explorations,
a series of solo events in Toynbee Hall and
Spitalfields Soundings, an outdoor stage in the
market showcasing local musicians.
36 events took place, of which ten were learning
events. Nine premieres of new pieces of music
took place. Box office income was five times the
average level of Winter Festivals in the past five
years. 20% of the audience attended an insight
event, talk or open rehearsal and 45% of those
attending free ticketed events went on to book for
a paid event.
Summer Festival
7 – 19 June 2009
Total events: 41
Media coverage
• Total number of cuttings 45
• Reviews 9
• Listings 15
• Articles/previews 19
The Summer Festival included a series of
evening events in Wilton’s Music Hall and Christ
Church, Spitalfields, outdoor lunchtime events in
the market during weekdays, weekend activities
for families, talks and a debate to explore ideas
within the festival further. It included three new
commissions from Michael Finnissy, Diana
Burrell and Jonathan Dove. Whilst the overall
festival period was shorter than has been
customary, more events took place within the
two weeks and afforded many opportunities for
audiences to extend their visit with talks and
participatory events. Outdoors, our lunchtime
programme expanded to fill the whole festival
period and during the middle weekend a
programme of free activity took place for all ages
in Spitalfields Market, at the Brady Centre and at
Idea Store, Whitechapel.

Learning & Participation
Programme
Total performances – 40
Total workshops – 151
Total participants – 6932
Total leaders – 139
(36 apprentice artists) (20 teachers)
Just under 7000 people from babies to elders
took part through our ten month programme.
Our specialisms in singing, creative music
making, innovative work with the local
community, and projects with young people
with special needs, continue to be recognised
nationally. Over the course of the next years we
will be experimenting with new ways of working,
within new and existing settings. Our mission
is to drive deeper into projects, making an even
greater impact on the lives of the people who are
inspired by Spitalfields Music. As you will expect,
our passion remains to bring inspiring music
to people across Tower Hamlets and beyond,
shining a light on the extraordinary creative
achievements of people across East London.
Year-round
Music Animateur Apprentice Scheme – an annual
scheme, which helps to develop a dedicated group
of musicians interested in pursuing a career in
learning and community settings.
Women sing East – a regular choir, led by
Laka D. The group worked termly towards the
development of a concert in the Summer and
Winter Festivals. Rehearsing at the Brady Arts
& Community Centre, it comprises women from
across East London. This year was the first
evening concert, at Wilton’s Music Hall as part of
the Summer Festival.
Sing for your Lunch – Laka D led two lunchtime
singing courses, with performances in the Winter
and Summer Festivals. City workers, local
residents and keen singers from further afield spent
their lunch-breaks learning a variety of popular
songs. Some participants featured as soloists with
performances in Bishopsgate Institute.
playingfields – a four year long creative music
project working in 10 primary schools across
Tower Hamlets.
Autumn Term
Seams and Songs – led by Sam Glazer and in
partnership with the Museum of Childhood
(Bethnal Green); Spitalfields Music ran a short
music workshop in response to the Museum of
Childhood’s tour around their Top to Toe Fashion for
Kids exhibition.
playingfields: Monstrous Melodies – one year 5
class from each of Hague and Osmani primary
schools worked with James Redwood and a team of
musicians to create a musical response to the myth
of Hercules. Performed at The Brady Arts Centre in
the Winter Festival.
playingfields: Royal Academy of Music Community
Concerts – biannual project developed with the
Royal Academy of Music, mentored by oboist, Julian
West. Students from RAM learnt about performing
within education settings, delivering a series of
school concerts across Tower Hamlets.
playingfields: The Lizard’s Tale – led by Hannah
Conway, the resulting interactive animation was
installed as part of the Spitalfields Music Winter
Festival residency with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, The
Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists
at Christ Church Spitalfields. Based on J S Bach’s
Christmas Oratorio and Brandenburg Concertos the
pupils from Year 5 Christ Church Primary School
developed their own oratorio which explored stories
of celebration, how things get their names and the
meanings behind them.
playingfields: Monteverdi Apprentices – a
lunchtime concert for an audience of mostly primary
school children presented by the Monteverdi
Apprentice Artists with the Winter Festival. Mentored
by Julian West, the Apprentices were guided through
the process of designing an appropriate concert and
the best way to present it to this audience.
playingfields: Interactive Bach – a lunchtime
concert presented by Hannah Conway delved into
Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and parts of the
Christmas Oratorio. The audience of mostly primary
school children from across Tower Hamlets were
able to get up close to the baroque instruments
from the orchestra and take part in an enthusiastic
concert performed by members of The English
Baroque Soloists.
Spring Term
Cherry Trees – at this primary school for boys with
severe emotional and behavioural difficulties, singer
Roshi Nasehi, and percussionist Jim Cartwright,
worked for an intensive two weeks towards a
performance for parents and siblings. Inspired by
the school’s innovative outdoor play strategy, they
created Messy Songs for Messy Play. The project
was a case study for the Sing Up programme,
Beyond the Mainstream.
Continuing Professional Development – our
team of animateurs working with us year round,
attended a weekend of workshops with Phil Mullen,
Suzi Digby and Paul Griffiths. This is a regular
commitment from Spitalfields Music to support
the professional development of our regular
workshop leaders.
Find Your Talent Festival – participation in the
launch festival at Museum of Childhood. This
included percussion workshops and the installation
of The Lizard’s Tale project.
Summer Term
Platform – our annual performance event for young
musicians in Tower Hamlets and across London as
part of the Summer Festival. This year we included
the amazing Steel Pan Orchestra from Sir John
Cass Secondary School and ensembles from Tower
Hamlets Arts and Music Saturday Music Centre.
The concert was presented by cellist, Sam Glazer,
and featured a range of ensembles and choirs,
culminating in the massed voices of all performers
and audience at Christ Church Spitalfields.
Family Day – following Spitalfields Music’s initial
Family Day in the Docklands Museum, this
year’s Family Day in the Summer Festival was an
exploration into early years music provision in Tower
Hamlets, focusing on singing.
playingfields: Dreaming with your Feet – in
partnership with the City of London Sinfonia (CLS),
the whole of Halley Primary School, led by John
Barber, produced an outdoor performance as part
of the Summer Festival based on dance music from
composer legends Bartok, Warlock and Stravinsky.
playingfields: MAAS final projects – a new element
to the training scheme this year was the opportunity
for our trainees to design, plan and led their own
primary school projects. Working with two of our
partner schools, Osmani and Hague primary
schools, in two teams our trainees created the
projects Dazzling Dreams and Nasty Nightmares
and Maui’s Myth.
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Our programme: Learning and Participation

Our audiences are a unique mix of first
time attenders and loyal regulars as well
as participants. Our aim is to offer the best
experience to everyone who attends an event
or participates.
Age of audiences
20% 34 & under; 61% 25-64; 19% 65+
Age of participants
66% 0-25; 44% 25+
Ethnic profile of audiences
65% White; 5% Black; 15% Asian
Ethnic profile of participants
15% White British; 55% Asian Bangladeshi
Geography of audiences
36% E & N postcodes
Household income of audiences
18% less than £20,000
52% £20,000 – £59,999
22% £60,000 – £109,999
8% £110,000 or higher
Audience for ticketed events
9685
Regularity of attendance
63% once
17% twice
20% 3 times or more
161 patrons, who constitute 8% of our audience
We continue to run our own box office and during
the year we have achieved our goal of increasing use
of online booking (by 6%), and reduced our postal
booking (by 2%), increasing use of our website,
beginning our own e-newsletter and using social
networking sites to feature some of our work.
Box office method of buying tickets:
During the year we ran a number of initiatives to
develop our audiences:
a new buy-one, donate-one scheme was•
introduced encouraging existing bookers to
donate the price of a ticket which we then
gave to a Tower Hamlets resident who had not
attended previously
one quarter of our tickets were available•
at £5 each
a 25% discount was offered across ‘series’•
tickets, leading to an increase in frequency
of attendance
our free outdoor events increased from two per•
festival week to five per festival week and we
have piloted the use of a mobile box office in
Spitalfields Market in the lead up to festivals
we have continued to persuade a high number•
of people to come for the first time
Audiences and participants
The Lizard’s Tale
– an interactive oratorio
Pupils from Christ Church School, members
of The English Baroque Soloists and The
Monteverdi Choir, composer and leader Hannah
Conway and digital artists Igloo used Bach’s
Christmas Oratorio as a starting point for a
term-long creative music project. By the end
of term a 20 minute interactive animation had
been created which was installed in the foyer of
Christ Church during the Winter Festival for our
7,000 audience members to encounter as they
came in and out of the building.
Dreaming with your Feet
Our main composition project for the Summer
Festival saw Halley School and the City of
London Sinfonia take over Spitalfields Market
one summer lunchtime, entertaining the
crowds of lunchtime visitors with a series of
songs they had created together during the
Spring term, inspired by the dance music of
Stravinsky, Bartok and Shostakovich. The
project was led by musician and leader,
John Barber.
7% in person
5% by post
29% by internet
58% booked
by telephone

Our income spreads across a broad range of
sources, testimony to the range of partnerships
which we have and the breadth of our
programme. Each year 60% of our income must
be raised from companies, trusts and individuals.
During the year we have felt the impact of the
economic challenges to some of our corporate
and trust supporters and this has resulted in a
decrease in our operational income. Conversely
we have seen an increase in levels of individual
support which has proved crucial to us.
Income sources:
We run a series of schemes through which
individuals, companies and charities can support
our work:
Funding
Special schemes:
Buy-one, donate-one – Spitalfields Music is
committed to reaching people who would
normally not have a chance to go to live music
events. We successfully started our new scheme
‘buy-one, donate-one’, asking our regular
audience to donate so that people from our
community can enjoy their first concert with us
for free.
New Music Commission Fund – our nine year old
Fund has helped us to offer a substantial and
eclectic new music programme. We have nearly
reached our target of £200,000 to produce the
best of contemporary music.
Legacies – legacy giving is a unique gift from
one generation to another. Including Spitalfields
Music in a will allows the contributor to offer
future generations what the contrtibutor can
enjoy today.
Regular giving:
Corporate donor circle – a committed group
of corporate donors works with us and directly
contributes to the local community through high
quality and innovative projects. Members of their
staff took an active role in delivering our two
festivals this year, volunteering as stewards.
Sponsorship – for businesses who want to donate
towards a special project, we can offer a range of
tailored opportunities. This summer, one of our
generous sponsors organised a reception in a
gorgeous antique shop in Spitalfields.
Donors – Spitalfields Music is lucky to work
with exceptional individual givers. From
supporting our box office costs to anonymously
sponsoring a concert, our major donors enable
us to run our organisation and produce the best
music in East London.
Champions – this year we have launched a
brand new scheme for people who want to get
involved with us at a higher level.
Patrons – patrons of Spitalfields Music are
part of the Spitalfields family. Many of our
patrons have been involved for many years.
We run a variety of schemes providing a range
of benefits, from advanced booking to private
events with artists.
Families
Spitalfields Music has been exploring how
we can provide more for families in our local
neighbourhood. Our programme for families
stepped into the foreground this year with a
series of family-focused events, culminating
in a Summer Festival Family Day with Idea
Store, Whitechapel. This included a children’s
library concert by Aurora Orchestra, junk
percussion making and playing workshops,
musical storytelling workshops and cafe
musical encounters, Magic Me Media Group
family photo portraits and early years music
workshops led by Zoe Palmer.
Future projects include continued work with
Idea Store, a residency at the Royal London
Hospital to look at how Spitalfields Music
can support parents, grandparents and
families and a regular Family Day within the
Summer Festival.
28% charitable
trusts &
foundations
16% earned
income
5% other
income
(investment)
18% corporate
giving
10% individual
giving
23% public
funding

Our work would not happen without generous and
regular support from the following who enable us
to make it all happen. Thank you!
Public funding
Companies
Allen & Overy
Ballymore
Clifford Chance
Foster + Partners
Hammerson plc
Herbert Smith LLP
HSBC Insurance
Man Group plc Charitable Trust
M&G Group
Spitalfields Estates
Foundations & Trusts
Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust
Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust
Britten – Pears Foundation
City Bridge Trust
John and Susan Bowers Fund
Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
Garfield Weston Foundation
Hinrichsen Foundation
Musicians Benevolent Fund
PRS Foundation
Radcliffe Trust
Rayne Foundation
RVW Trust
Sir John Cass’s Foundation
The Coutts Charitable Trust
The Derek Shuttleworth Educational Trust
The Drapers’ Company
The Holst Foundation
The Idlewild Trust
The Foyle Foundation
The Mercers’ Company
The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation
The Robert Gavron Charitable Trust
Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers
Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths
Worshipful Company of Coopers
Worshipful Company of Cutlers
Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
Worshipful Company of Musicians
Legacies
The late Christopher Vaughan
The late Peter Lerwill
Major individual donors
George & Anne Law
Anonymous donors
Champions
Andrew Blankfield & Bernadette Hillman
Francis Carnwath
Chris Carter
Geoffrey Collens
Helen Fraser
Milton Grundy Foundation
Keith & Sarah Jane Haydon
Rosalind Hedley-Miller
Peter & Sarah King
Sir Alan Moses
Richard Syred & Brian Parsons
John Twomey
Chair of Patrons
George Law
Honorary Life Patrons
David Cade
Jonathan Dove
Dr Anthony W Henfrey
George Law
Chris Sayers
Judith Serota OBE
Judith Weir CBE
Life Gold Patrons
Michael Godbee
Gold Patrons
Katie Bradford
The Byrne Charitable Trust
Amelia Chilcott Fawcett CBE
Alex & Susan de Mont
Nicholas & Emma Hardie
Sue & Tom Imber
Michael Langton
George & Anne Law
Jeremy Lindon
S W Massil
John & Judy McCuin
John & Terry Pearson
Abigail Pogson
Ruth Rattenbury
Brian D Smith
Robin & Christine Whaite
Silver Patrons
C J Apperley
Ken Blakeley
Judith Borrow
Richard Brown
John Crisp
Leopold de Rothschild
Charles C Duff
Mary Dufty
Olwen Evans
Mavis Fabling
Jo-Anne Fraser
Mary Gilchrist
L Hearn & A Williams
Arabella Hobson
Kate Jenkins
Vic & Maggie Knope
Mary & David Pears
David Preddy
Keith Salway
Susan & Charles Whiddington
Colin E Wolfe
J P Wotton
Our supporters

Patrons
Cynthia Akid
Colin & Judy Alexander
Stephen Aris
Edward Armitage
Bridget Asprey
Leonard Attewell
R A Bailey & P J Cameron
Ian Basnett
Richard Bawden
Stephen Benson
Alison Bernal
Penny Berryman
Graham Betts
Keith Billinghurst
Roy Blackwell & Jennifer Jones
David Bradbury
Cyril Bryan
Michael Burbidge
Cynthia Butterworth
Andrew Ceresa
S R Collinson
Margaret Coppack
John & Claire Cornwell
Sandy & John Critchley
Anne Crosby
Janet Davies
Nicola & David de Quincey Souden
Jenifer Deco
John Delorey
Janet Di Stefano
Brian & Judy Dobbs
Patricia Eaton
Annie Edge
Sian Evans & Oliver Hatch
E J Field
Hazel Ford
Shirley Foulkes
Elizabeth Fowler
Sue Gardener
Christine Garrett
Mr & Mrs George
Brian Girling
Nigel Glendinning
James Golob
Jean Gooding
Don Gorman
Diana Gray
Ann & Nick Gray
David W Green
Hannah Griffiths & Chris Simms
Adey Grummet
Ulrich Haemmig
David Hansell
Freda Harcourt
Virginia Harding
Vanessa Harley
Christine Harris
John Harwood
D Hawkins
Nora Heard
Andrew Hinchley
Dr Anthony Hobson
Julia Hodgkin
Ruth Hoffman
Diane Holt
Anna Home
Dagna Horner
Barbara Hosking
Linda Howell
Dr Desmond Howlett
Kimberly Hutchings
Brian Innis
Stephen Jack
Molly Jackson
Sue Jackson
Alice Jacobs
Gill James
Frank Jeffs
Lance & Brenda Johnson
Olivia & Marc Jordan
Raymond Joscelyne
Ms J Keech
John Kent
Peter & Sarah King
Bridget Kitley
John Knight
Frank Krikhaar
Claire L’Enfant
Paul & Karen Lasok
John Lavagnino
Peter Lerwill
Christine Lewis
Maria Longo
Norma MacMillan
Kathleen Malbon
Nicola Manby
Kevin & Celia Mansell
Michael & Alexi Marmot
Professor Michael Marsh
Sue Marsh
Deborah Marson
Graham McLanachan
Sarah McLintock
Graham Morrison
Victor Morrison & Margaret Willes
Sylvia Moys
Deirdre Munro
Dr C W A Murray
Elizabeth Nairn
Linda Neal
E A Newlands
George Nissen
David Norgrove
John Osborn
Jennifer Oxley
Alison Parkinson
Ann Porter
Dr Clive Potter
Nigel & Vivien Prevost
Sue Prickett
Mary Quigley
Martin Redfern
John Robertson
Ann Ross
Sue Rowlands
Alan Sainer
Ted & Jenny Salmon
Maggie Sandell
Richard & Margaret Sax
Marianne & Barry Scheer
Henrietta Shields
Richard Slack
Richard & Jenny Smith
Katie Smith
Grace Spence
Norman Start
S F M Steer
Colin Stolkin
Hilda Taylor
Claire Tighe
Dr Jeffrey Tobias
Howard Townson
Mr J Utting
Alan & Lyn Williams
Gwyn Williams
Peter L Willig
Charles Wilmot-Smith
Muriel Wilson
Valerie Wise
Rob N Wood
Our supporters
Spitalfields Soundings
– December 2008
Spitalfields Market came alive with the
sounds of the Allen & Overy Choir, the
Women sing East Choir and young local
bands including Purple Socks and Zombies
for Hire. With food and drink supplied by
Leon Restaurants, local people were treated
to an early evening winter warmer event,
which included a massed and alternative
version for audience and performers of
Handel’s rousing Hallelujah Chorus, all
arranged and presented by Pete Letanka.

Our supporters
Help in kind
Rodney Archer hospitality
Fiona Atkins hospitality
Bryony Bainbridge photography
Ballymore Properties Ltd office space, storage space
Bishopsgate Institute meeting space
The Brady Arts & Community Centre project space,
schools mailings
Christ Church, Spitalfields hospitality, venue
City of London car parking for artists
Eyediology Opticians eye tests
John Cornwell & Claire Veillard Cornwell hospitality
John & Sandy Critchley hospitality
Chris & Sarah Dyson hospitality
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP legal advice,
postage, photocopying
Eleanor Jones & Chris Legg hospitality
Marianna Kennedy hospitality
Leon Restaurants hospitality
London Borough of Tower Hamlets rate relief
Hector Macandrew recruitment
Mazars payroll, storage
Gerard Moloney research
Musicians Union publicity
Shipleys LLP VAT, consultancy
Shoreditch Church meeting space, storage, venue
The Society of Royal Cumberland Youths bell ringing
Spitalfields Development Group meeting space
Uncorked catering
Virgin Active UK gym membership
Waitrose Wine catering
Charlie de Wet hospitality
Wieden + Kennedy communications
Wilton’s Music Hall hospitality, venue

Financial statements
Income and
expenditure account
For the year ended 31 December 2008
2008 2007
£ £
Income
Statutory 150,702 181,221
Fundraising 320,907 353,571
Sales 135,917 92,714
Investment 13,347 21,833
Other 23,655 47,911
644,528 697,250
Expenditure
Festivals 347,345 382,949
Learning 284,192 248,370
Overheads and governance 92,479 96,037
Other 40,267 20,867
764,283 748,223
Surplus (deficit) for the
year before revaluation
on investments (119,755) (51,003)
Balance sheet
As at 31 December 2008

2008 2007
£ £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets 84,460 74,061
Investments 522,649 716,651
607,109 790,712
Current assets
Debtors 28,228 101,395
Cash at bank and in hand 60,650 101,395
88,878 176,781
Creditors
Amount falling due within
one year (155,099) (157,657)
Net current assets (66,221) 19,124
Net assets 540,888 809,836
Funds
Unrestricted funds 228,284 409,926
Restricted funds:
– Projects 1,406 7,842
– Christopher Vaughan
Legacy Fund 123,395 171,766
– Lottery Assets 53,346 58,327
– New Music Commission
Fund 134,457 161,975
Total charity funds 540,888 809,836
The Transgressive Gospel
Commissioned by Diana Burrell to mark her
sixth and final festival as Artistic Director,
The Transgressive Gospel was an evening-
long work by one of the UK’s leading
composers. The result of the commission
was a significant new work which achieved
both audience and critical acclaim and
will now reach a further audience through
broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Bringing new
works into the world is a cornerstone of
Spitalfields Music’s activity.
‘Finnissy’s piece is a model of integrity, which
is why it is so powerfully moving. I’ve been
to many more “exciting” premieres in recent
years, but none more important.’
Ivan Hewitt, The Telegraph

People
Our work is made possible by a unique mix of
people including an energetic Council, a group of
experienced programme advisers, a dedicated and
creative team of employees and a motivated and
passionate group of volunteers. During the year
we increased our volunteer training to four days,
employees undertook 44 training days between
them and the Council and its sub-groups increased
their number of meeting days by 33% in order
to support the organisation through challenging
economic times.
Council
Andrew Blankfield – Chair
Francis Carnwath CBE
Helen Fraser
Nick Hardie
Keith Haydon
Michael Keating
Sir Alan Moses (Chair from October 2009)
Sarah Gee
Bilkis Malek
John McCuin
Finance and Legal Committee
John McCuin – Chair
Andrew Blankfield
Francis Carnwath CBE
Nick Hardie
Keith Haydon
Programme Advisors
Michael Keating – Chair
Karen Brock
David Gallagher
Bilkis Malek
Clare Stevens
Jane Williams
Administration
Helen Bailey Office Manager
Tamsin Bainbridge Programme Manager:
Barbara Evans Finance Manager
Clare Lovett Programme Director:
Alexandra Marshall Communications Officer
Sylvain Malburet Development Officer
Abigail Pogson Executive Director
Kate Wyatt Programme Director: Festivals
Festivals
Natalie Bidouj Technical Crew
Rob Gooch Technical Crew
Ellie Folkes Box Office Assistant
Christine Lewis Office Volunteer
Anne-Marie Norman Front of House Manager
Joanna Petkiewicz Concert Manager
Jana Phillips Festival Events Manager
Michael Ramsay Technical Manager
Lara Thomson Office Volunteer
Emma Seach Box Office Assistant
Kasia Sobucka Programme Intern
James Waterhouse Concert Manager
Stewards
Anne Adamson
Rodney Archer
Kate Ayres
Sarah Bannock
Alexandru Belciug
Neil Bowman
Colin Brooking
Liza Castellino
Fay Cattini
Julia Chalkley
Shanel Chandra
Noel Chow
Mathurot Chuladul
Marie Collett
Aine Cook
Tricia Cox
John Critchley
Sandy Critchley
Carol Davie
Rebecca Davies
Tim Davy
Charlie de Wet
Jane Dunnage
Jennifer Emptage
Sascha Fourel
Elizabeth Goldman
Denise Grafe
Bill Green
Helen Hackney
Constance Haken
Sarah Harvey
Nora Heard
Mary Hempstead
Marianne Janosi
Ben Jefferies
Briony Jones
Julia Kowalle
Danielle Lemon
Christine Lewis
Andrew Liddell
Jeremy Lindon
Carole Mahoney
Sylvia Marland
Tony Marland
Anita Miller
Gerard Moloney
Ian Morrison
Jo Muller
Alice Northgreaves
Richard Palmer
Joan Payne
Morwenna Pestell
Anna Piet
Kelvin Piper
Francesca Pisani
Margaret Pitt
Ann Porter
Ray Prior
Adrian Prockter
Francis Pugh
Sheila Rawlins
John Robertson
Amelia Robinson
Peter Salter
Anne-Marie Sharman
Elizabeth Shaw
Maggie Stockton
Ann Thomas
Lara Thomson
Delia Whitbread
Susan Whitehead
Serena Wong
Toby Young
Volunteering
Over 80 people volunteered for Spitalfields
Music during 2008/09, 21 of those for the
first time, helping us with a range of tasks
including recruitment, research, IT advice,
documenting events, shifting furniture and
stuffing envelopes. The vast majority of our
volunteers appear as stewards at festival
events. This is an invaluable resource to us
(our festivals couldn’t operate without them)
and a great chance for people to make
new friends, learn new skills and practise
old ones, to hear music they would not
normally encounter and to give something
back into the community.

Spitalfields Music
www.spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk
Spitalfields Music,
61 Brushfield Street,
London, E1 6AA
Administration: 020 7377 0287
Box Office: 020 7377 1362
Minicom: 020 7375 0730
Fax: 020 7247 0494
Email: info@spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk
Spitalfields Festival Ltd Company limited by guarantee
Registered in England no 3138347 VAT no 524 7309 51
Registered charity no 1052043
Photographs by
Ben Ealovega
Peter Findlay
Bryony Bainbridge
Michael Watson/Aldeburgh Music
Matthew Andrews
Noel Chow

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